DSP Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition
from Altera Corporation
The DSP Development Kit, Cyclone® II Edition is RoHS compliant and delivers a complete development environment for digital signal processing (DSP). The DSP Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition provides a low-cost hardware platform for developing high-performance DSP designs based on Altera® Cyclone II FPGAs. The kit includes the Cyclone II DSP development board, DSP Builder development tool, Quartus® II development software, The MathWorks' MATLAB/Simulink evaluation software, evaluation intellectual property (IP) cores, and system reference designs and labs, as well as power supplies, cables, and documentation.
Ordering Information
| Table 1. DSP Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition Ordering Code and Pricing Information |
| Ordering Code |
Price |
Ordering Information |
| DK-DSP-2C70N |
$995 |
In North America, call 1-888-800-0631.
For international sales, contact your local distributor. |
| DC-VIDEO-TVP5146 |
$195 |
In North America, call 1-888-800-0631.
For international sales, contact your local distributor. |
Development Kit Contents
The DSP Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition features:
- Cyclone II EP2C70 DSP development board
- Cyclone II EP2C70F672C6 device
- Analog I/O
- Two 14-bit analog-to-digital (A/D) converter channels with 125-million samples per second (MSPS)
- Two 14-bit, 165-MSPS, 70 dB digital-to-analog (D/A) converters
- One 24-bit RGB VGA adapter with a DB-15 connector
- One Audio CODEC with input, output, and amplified output
- External I/O
- Mictor connector for hardware and software debugging
- 3.3-V/5-V tolerant Altera expansion/prototype headers
- One Texas Instruments Evaluation Module (TI-EVM) expansion connector to connect to the Spectrum Digital 'DSP Starter Kit (DSK) for the TMS320C6416', Revision E
- Memory subsystem
- 256-Mbyte DDR2 SDRAM DIMM
- 1-Mbyte synchronous SRAM (SSRAM)
- Two EPCS64 devices
- MATLAB/Simulink evaluation software
- DSP Builder development tool
- Quartus II Education Kit
- Evaluation IP cores
- System reference designs and labs
- DSP Builder filtering design
- DSP Builder/SOPC Builder image processing reference design
- Fast Fourier transform (FFT) coprocessor reference design for Texas Instruments' TMS320C6416 DSK
- Nios® II reference designs
- DDR2 DIMM reference design
- Cables and accessories
- USB-BlasterTM download cable
- Power supply
- International power cords
Video input daughtercard features:
- Two composite video input channels using the TI TVP5146 ADC
- Support for NTSC/PAL
- 10-bit BT.656 output
- Compatibility with expansion connector, standard on most Altera development kits and included with the Video Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition
Figure 1. Cyclone II EP2C70 DSP Development Board

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